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Till within three days of that advance, the Mohmund 

 watch-fires and tents could be distinctly seen from 

 Jamrud. Then suddenly Mahmood Shah Khan 

 changed front, probably alarmed by the formidable 

 appearance of the huge British camp covering the 

 whole country from Jamrud to Peshawar. The Moh- 

 mund contingent deserted Rotas and retired towards 

 Shilman and Lalpoorah. The formidable right flank 

 of the enemy's position was thus left unguarded ; and 

 the turning flank-march made by the brigades of 

 Generals Tytler and M'Pherson was entirely unop- 

 posed, though some miles of it was made in single 

 file, first along the steep mountain-slopes, and then 

 down as rugged and formidable a gorge as it is 

 possible to conceive, with precipitous crags rising 

 3000 feet above the narrow rocky water-course, down 

 which the troops filed without hearing a shot fired. 

 This flank move, by placing two infantry regiments 

 in the Khyber Pass two miles in rear of the enemy's 

 position on their main line of retreat, in the first day 

 of the attack, hastened the evacuation of the fort 

 which evacuation became a hurried panic-stricken 

 flight before the morning of the 22d, when twenty- 

 four pieces of cannon, and all tents, magazines, and 

 stores, fell into the hands of the victors. It was no 

 pleasant position held by Colonel Jenkins with the 

 Guide Corps and 1st Sikhs a portion of General 

 Tytler's brigade that night : Ali Musjid untaken ; 

 a deep gorge three miles long in his rear ; the heights 



